Considering the fact that 2011 has been The Year of the Booty Call, it’s not much of a surprise that it’s also the year of realizing-that-marriage-is-crazy. It seems like each of the 52 weeks provided some new story or study that showed that we as a public are finally coming to see that getting married in your twenties isn’t the ONLY option (and in fact might be the very worst one). Let’s take a look at our top 5, shall we?

1. The SHOCKING amount celebrity couples that split:

Scarlett Johanssen and Ryan Reynolds, Arnold and Maria, Sandra and Jesse, Will and Jada, JLo and Marc Anthony, Sinead O’Connor (is she a celebrity?), Adrienne Curry and that Brady dude, Kim Kardashian and her NBA goon, and many more, the celebrity break ups this year were OFF THE CHARTS. And if a marriage can’t last in a relationship full of St. Barts vacations and million dollar gifts, then I’m pretty sure our lowly proletariat marriages don’t have a chance.

2. 40% of Americans think that marriage is obsolete anyway

Straight from the US Census, we learned that the amount of people who think marriage is outdated has hit an all time high, for several reasons.

3. Marriage is totally outdated, dude.

This post listed three reasons that marriage might have been a necessity back in the Middle Ages, the 18th century, and the 1950s, but is DEFINITELY not now. One of my personal favorite posts of the year.

4. Married people did some NUTJOB SH*T THIS YEAR. And we believe the very institution of marriage might be a good reason for their crazy antics, like say:

• Murdering your wife after you asked her to be in a threesome and she fell in love with the other woman
• Murdering your husband and burying his body in a hog pen
• Trying to kill your wife by driving your truck through a Waffle House

5. People like this are allowed to get married